Imperial Eks

Article about: Excellent EKs you have there Chopperman. Can you tell me more info about this one?

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Nice one i think everyone should have a "KO" in their collection. KO crosses are one of the most common crosses. I have been told that the KO crosses are thought to be the standard "awarded" cross.

Greg....what are your thoughts on the recent revelation that "KO" medals are made by Klein & Quenzer ?
Prost !Steve.

"The German Army is the perfectly adapted, perfectly running Machine. The difference is that the Germans are organised with a view to War...with the cold, hard, practical and business-like purpose of winning victories."
G.W. Steevens - The Daily Mail (1897)

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Something from a Prussian veterans' association and almost certainly Landwehr-related.

"Mit Gott für König und Vaterland" means "With God for King and Fatherland" and was a traditional Prussian motto.

Members of the Prussian Landwehr (the second-line reserves) wore a Landwehrkreuz [Landwehr Cross] on their headgear whose design was almost identical to that of this cross; the difference being that the lower arm of the cross bore only the year "1813" instead of "Verein/1866".

"Verein" means "club", "association", "league" etc. So this clearly relates to an association that was either founded in the year 1866 or named itself after the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 or both.